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Saunders, Assistant Superintendent of police, who was responsible for Lala Lajpat Rai death, was killed by __________.

  1. Batukeshwar Dutt

  2. Bhagat Singh and Rajguru

  3. Chandra Shekhar Azad

  4. Sachindra Sanyal


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Lala Lajpat Rai died on November 17, 1928, after suffering grievous injuries during a lathi-charge carried out by the police. Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru shot and killed assistant superintendent of police John Saunders.on December 17, 1927. However, their original target was not Saunders but the superintendent of police James Scott who had ordered his men to lathi-charge.

The revolutionary who was an accused in Lahore Conspiracy Case and who died in Jail after $63$ days fast was ________.

  1. Jatindra Nath Das

  2. Sukh Dev

  3. Raj Guru

  4. Both (a) and (b) 


Correct Option: A

The main brain behind hurling a bomb at Lord Hardinge, while he was making his state entry into Delhi was ___________.

  1. Ras Behari Bose

  2. Bhagat Singh

  3. Sachindra Sanyal

  4. Jatin Das


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Rash Behari Bose attempted to assassinate Lord Hardinge on 23 December 1912 after Lord Hardinge was returning from the Delhi Darbar of King George V. He was hunted by the British police due to his participation in the failed bomb hurling attempt. His aim was to prove to the world that Indians do not accept the subjection of his country to foreign rule by consent, but by force of military power.

In the famous Kakori Conspiracy Case(August $1925$) which of the following revolutionaries was not hanged?

  1. Ram Prasad Bismil

  2. Asafaqualla Khan

  3. Bhagat Singh

  4. Roshan Singh


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Kakori Conspiracy Case was an armed robbery on August 9, 1925, of a train at the town of Kakori. It also refers to its subsequent court trial that recommended death sentences for some freedom fighters. Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, and Roshan Singh were sentenced to death. It was the first organized ‘crime’ of HRA.

The revolutionary leader who had organized an attack on the armoury of Chittagong was ______________.

  1. Surya Sen

  2. Jatin Das

  3. Chandra Shekhar Azad

  4. CR Das


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Surya Sen was a Bengali independence fighter who led the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid. He made a revolt against British rule in Chittagong and banished British reign for a few days. One of his successful undertakings was a robbery at the treasury office at the Bengal-Assam Railway at Chittagong on December 23, 1933 in broad daylight.

The revolutionary who died after 63 days hunger strike was _______.

  1. Sukh Dev

  2. Batukeshwar Dutt

  3. Jatin Das

  4. Raj Guru


Correct Option: C

What was the most important cause for the outbreak of the Ghadar revolution?

  1. Commencement of World War I

  2. Hanging of Kartar Singh Sarabha

  3. Komagata Maru Incident

  4. Arrest of Lala Hardayal


Correct Option: C

The first President of the Ghadar Party-founded in $1913$ in USA-was __________.

  1. Lata Hardayal

  2. Sohan Singh Bhakna

  3. Bhai Parmanand

  4. Sardar Ajit Singh


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The founding president of Ghadar Party was Sohan Singh Bhakna. The aim of the party was to rid of the colonial super-power by means of an armed struggle and to set up a national democratic government on the sub-continent. The party was multi-ethnic and had Hindu, Sikh and Muslim leaders with its headquarters San Francisco.

The Communist Party of India was founded in $1921$ by _____________.

  1. Hiren Mukherjee

  2. SM Joshi

  3. MN Roy

  4. RC Dutt


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is not correctly matched?

  1. Bhagat Singh: Meerut Conspiracy Case

  2. Ram Prasad Bismil: Kakori Conspiracy Case

  3. Chandra Shekhar Azad: New Delhi Conspiracy

  4. Surya Sen: Chittagong Armoury Raid


Correct Option: C